A collection of Brautigan’s first three works to be published, and there is no better place to start than ‘Trout Fishing in America’ which sent him into confused stardom, apparently representing the counter-culture of the time, whilst being contemptuous of hippies. Ferlinghetti said ‘He was much more in tune with the trout in America than the people’.

TFiA is followed by his ‘Poetry’ with The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster, a collection of ninety-eight poems, and finishing off with In Watermelon Sugar, a parable for survival in the 20th century, the story of a successful commune called iDEATH whose inhabitants survive in passive unity while a group of rebels live violently and end up dying in a mass suicide.

Despite our efforts above, it is not possible to really describe these three works. They are Brautigan, go with the flow... and the trout.

All of us have a place in history. Mine is in cloudsIn 1984 at the age of 49 Brautigan died of a self-inflicted gunshot-wound. More details

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1873 - Basil Montagu Pickering, London - First Edition

The first collection of poems by Robert Seymour Bridges (1844-1930), poet, prosodist, anthologist, and typographer, who was considered among the most influential literary figures of the early twentieth century.

Scarce, according to McKay’s Bibliography, (1933) Bridges said that ’most of this edition was, in fact, destroyed, and very few copies are believed to exist’.

It ‘contains perhaps his greatest short poem, the “Elegy on a Lady Whom Grief for the Death of Her Betrothed Killed,” a poem comparable only to Dryden’s “Ode to the Memory of Mrs. Ann Killigrew.”... In grace and technical perfection there is nothing to exceed a few poems in the 1873 volume. Bridges ranks with Chaucer, Herrick, and Milton as a metrist, and this command over the formal aspect of poetry was complete from the first.’ - Albert Guerard, Jr. More details

1814 - Printed by Whittingham and Rowland for John Martin, London - First Edition

A pretty and scarce first edition of the the first published anthology of Hindi Poets. Internally fine and unopened. More details

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1911 - Oxford University Press, London - Oxford Edition

‘How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach, when feeling out of sight for the ends of being and ideal grace.’A handsomely bound volume of the collected works of Browning, with the author’s dedication to her father and preface commenting on her earlier works. Despite living under the tyrannical rule of her father through much of her life, Browning was one of the most industrious poets of her generation, her bibliography boasting well over two-hundred published poems at the time of her death. A pioneer for civil-rights, feminism, and a stalwart anti slavery advocate, she remains as beloved today as she was in the eighteen-hundreds. More details

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Three volumes finely bound in early 20th century full tan calf. In addition to Butler’s ‘satirical polemic upon Roundheads, Puritans, Presbyterians and many of the other factions involved in the English Civil War’, this edition includes ‘The Author’s Life’ and an extensive introductory preface, combined with Zachary Grey’s details annotations throughout.

Illustrated with numerous woodcut vignettes and eight plates. More details

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1822 - Longman, London. Edinburgh - New Edition

A finely bound early edition of this Glaswegian poets most well known work, two parts bound in one, illustrated with engravings by C. Heath from paintings by R. Westall.

‘Thomas Campbell's enormously popular poem, which inverts the theme of Samuel Rogers's The Pleasures of Memory, established the format the series of poems on the pleasures would adopt for a generation to come’

In addition to his poetry and lecturing, Campbell was actively involved in the foundation of University College London (originally known as London University). More details

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1934 - Oxford University Press, London - Fourth Edition

‘Oh for a lodge in some vast wilderness,Some boundless contiguity of shade,Where rumour of oppression and deceit,Of unsuccessful or successful war,Might never reach me more.’A excellent copy – finely bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe – of the poetical works of William Cowper, including his poems ‘Epitaph on a Hare’ and ‘The Task’, together with his Olney Hymns and his translations from classical Latin and Greek verses. Edited and with a preface by H.S. Milford. More details